138 Miscellaneous Bibliography. 
decease was unexpected. He passed most of the last winter in Boston 
ing to Scotland only a 
short time before his death. His amiable manners and remarkable 
powers as a conversationalist had won for him the same social ‘distinetidl 
in Great Britain which he long enjoyed in America, and a numerous 
body of personal friends deplore. his loss on both sides of the Atlantic. 
VI. MISCELLANEOUS BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
1. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences ; 
Vol. I, Part I, 248 pp. 8vo, with 3 plates. New Haven,»Conn., 1866. 
($2.50).—The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences was organized 
and chartered by the State in the year 1799. In 1810 it issued the first 
part of Vol. I, of the “Memoirs” of the Academy, containing, amon 
of winter, by Noan Wessrer; on the Mineralogy of New Haven, by B. 
ma on the quantity of rain which falls on different days of the 
moon, by Jeremran Day; on an Aurora at Durham, by Rev. Exizur 
Goppinn.: on the Weston Meteorite, by Profs. Sitniman and Kine@sLey ; 
iV th 4 imap’ 
paper on the fusion of Pescontd bodies by the compound yee of 
Dr. ope ; and Prof. ay’s on the comet of 1811 
e 1816, papers read halos the Academy have, to a considerable 
iviciis, aad ‘their way to the public through the American Journal of 
Science, the first number of oo as issued in August, 1818. The 
Academy has now commenced a second series of publications under the 
title of Transactions. The rer ae just issued contains four papers: 1, 
The register of the Aurora Borealis made at New Haven by E. C. Her- 
cx, between March 1837 ~~ My 1854, occupying 130 pages, with 
extracts from a register by cis Braptey; 2, Notices of Auroras, ex- 
President of Yale College, made between Nov. 1763 and Nov. 1794, 
together with other miscellaneous notices of later date collected by Prof. 
E. Loomis; 3, on Bekker’s Digammated text of Homer, by Prof. James 
The Academy aoe Maktage of pe ag —~ other academies, 
and announces on cover of the voees t p —r may be 
—— to the Libieras of _ Academy at New gn 
The American Annual Cyclopedia — Raper ‘of important 
events of the year 1865. vol. v, large 8vo. New York, D. Appleton & 
Co. 1866. pp. 850.—It is highly creditable Bee to the Editors and 
the great publishing house of 65 ctoula that the stcsoigeecta and ene 
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